Living Faith Church supports or partners financially or prayerfully with local, national and international mission organizations like:

Cape Coral Caring Center
Lifeline Family Center
WAY-FM
First Choice Pregnancy Center
Lutheran Brethren World Missions
Lutheran Brethren North American Mission
The GLIMPSE PROJECT
New Mission Systems International
The Joshua Project
World Mission Prayer League
Lutheran Bible Translators
Casa, a Vision and a Mission

other local charities & assistance directories: 1, 2, 3, 4

 

October 2008 Prayer Circle

“You are witnesses of these things.  And behold, I am sending forth the promise of my Father upon you, you will be clothed with power from on high.”  Luke 24:47,48.

Come, o come, Thou quick’ning Spirit, God from all eternity!
May Thy power never fail us; dwell within us constantly. 
Then shall truth and life and light banish all the gloom of night. –Heinrich Held. 1664.

PRAYER PROMPTERS:

1. JOHN & KATHY WILEY are traveling throughout Asia for the next 6 weeks visiting LB Missionaries as well as other Partner Missions in other countries participating in Seminars, Worship Services, and Council Meetings with both teaching and personal ministry of encouragement.

2. English teacher in Japan, HEATHER MULHERN, assisted by KIM SORENSON, is celebrating a unique sleepover party with teenage girls on October 4th and 5th.  She asks for specific intercession that she will communicate the Gospel with clarity to these girls.

 

3. This is a month of many readjustments for the Fludes, the Venbergs, and the Holzners recently arrived or returned to CHAD.  It is also a time of thanksgiving and celebration as they witness all that God has done through hardships.  Lets pray for those with October birthdays:  Liddy Flude (10/5/99) and Alex Flude (10/13/91).

Also Delores 10/13 –Taiwan- and Joshua Bengtson (10/23/91) –Japan.

4. NMSI with 170 missionaries gathering for their Tri-annual Conference in Bulgaria.  They have a couple of days to impact and encourage the Church in that land of 8 million people between Greece and Romania and then have a week of encouraging and challenging one another.  J.D. Whitney is NMSI President and

Seeks God’s wisdom in a context that often births visions of new ministry.

        5.  LIVING WATER MINISTRIES of PALM BEACH, FL feeds 1,200 children in 8 villages of northeast Haiti.  They also have coordinated evangelism and discipleship Short Term Missions that has led to the beginning of 6 churches and the encouragement of educating Pastors for those churches.  Presently they are burdened with Relief AID due to the horrible flooding but also finding receptivity to the Gospel.  A major involvement of local women here in SWFL is a ministry of small group as well as one-on-one discipleship.
Contact info: Marie Popkin 470-3667 – sanfiregirl@aol.com / www.livingwaterhaiti.org.

September 2008 MISSION PRAYER CIRCLE

Prayer Needs to remember:

1. Taiwan Missionaries sharing the vision of reaching the Hakka people with CLBA churches through December and then returning to work closely together as a church planting team.  Mike & Delores Kittelson (grown children Anna , Trygve), Ethan & Sandy Christofferson (Caleb 15, Hannah 10), and Andrew & Kris Larsen (Isaak 4, Noelle 2, Joseph 1).

2. Marcos & Kirsten Holzner (and 4 kids) hope to be in Chad by October 1st.  Pray for safety, adjustments, emotional and spiritual strength as they return to the field.

 

3. September Birthdays include Ethan Flude-6-(CHAD), Kirsten Holzner-?- (CHAD), Micah Szobody-5-(CHAD), and Stephen Bickler-?-(East Asia).

4. New Mission Systems International:  Kyle Maloney raising support Team back home in Ohio, David Fontana recovering from dangerous blood infection.

 

5. Louisiana communities, families, Churches, National Guard units, health care workers, Power Company workers, Salvation Army staff and volunteers, local, regional and federal agencies.  Christian Charities in cooperative ventures.

6. Political unrest and transition in Pakistan for the good of the people, the future of liberties and opportunities for Christians to practice their faith and to witness, the maintenance of growing ties with Western nations for the good of Missions.

 

             

 

Mission Prayer Circle                             August 2008

 
Devotional Thought:  Ephesians 5:8, 15-18   -Redeem the time and live as children of light!  How does this thought arm our prayer life, shape our petitions, move our hearts and birth new yearnings?

Requests
  1. We pray for the impact of VBS on the children, on family members, and our own Living Faith Church staff of volunteers.
  2. We pray for the varied needs in our congregation and physical, emotional, spiritual stamina as we reach the last few weeks of hard work on our new building and seek the Lord for direction, growth, and maturity in our congregation’s future.

 
  3.  The Lord has given us a resource for learning, a vehicle to expand our being used to reach the world, and special fellowship in the gift of NMSI headquarters being here in Ft. Myers and some of their missionaries worshipping with us.
      We pray for Bob & Ann Krepps:
 
                  And for Kyle Maloney:
 
  4.      Emilio and Ana Ladines request special prayer for Emilio recovering from surgery and in need of still more attention.  They will loose some of the investment in their return ticket, are pursuing acceptance with Frontier Missions – L.A. Div. And they need wisdom re. a goal for returning to Central Asia.
 
  5.  CLBA MISSIONS: 
+ Andrew and Kris Larsen and their children arrive today from Taiwan for a 5 month US Assignment including family get-togethers and study.  +  Jonathan, Zamzam, and Esther are traveling to tell CLB churches throughout North America and several congregation’s of other Church Bodies who support Frontiers Mission to tell about the work in Chad.  Friday is Jonathan’s Birthday.  +  The Bengstoms, Dean, Linda, Joshua, and Christopher are also traveling making plans to be back in Japan in September.

 

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Mission Prayer Circle   *    June 5th, 2008

Earthquake Victims in China/Myanmar Victims still in need of AID.

The official death toll stands at 12,012 (6/4/08) and the media stands on a total of over 19,000.  These are days of unprecedented opportunity for several Christian Agencies to give witness through loving acts, provisions, and simple short moments of testimony.  Limitations and threats to the underground church are real so ex-patriots want to be careful not to inflict greater harm on their Christian brethren.

Many missionaries and relief efforts by evangelicals are providing hope in areas untouched by government and international aid.  Especially pray for World Vision, C&MA, Baptist Relief, Samaritan’s Purse, and NMSI who are often working together to be more effective in their help and witness.

Japan

The first Methodist missionaries arrived in Japan in1859 without a convert till 1864. Presbyterians in 1885, Baptist in 1889.  Then a season of harvest,  OMS International in 1901 began evangelistic services in Tokyo nonstop every night till 1912 with over 15,000 converts!  By 1907 there were 26 Protestant Mission Agencies with over 600 churches and 150,000 communicant members.  In 1914 an article in the University Press in Boston states, “It does not seem strange that many of the more astute Japanese should feel that Japan will soon be a Christian nation.”  TODAY?  Less than 1.5% are evangelical Christians!  THE LB began work in Japan in 1949 and today averages 1,200 Sunday worshipers in 29 congregations and values its Seminary for training as well.  Our centers in this land of 127 million are found in Takanosu-Honshu, Sendai, Tokyo and Yokohama.
    Arnie & Bonita work in Church planting and involved in Friendship Evangelism, mentoring, and training.
    Dean & Linda are directors of the Outreach through English Classes & support a Church planting effort.
    DPN (6/6) Great Need for English teachers for the next couple of years….  www.lbwm.org/connections

 

Birthdays:  Linda – 7/2    /    Zamzam  6/3

                     Mks:  Tevianni – 5/18/02,          Isaak – 5/24/04,  Joseph – 5/31/07,          Payton – 6/7/93,  Esther – 6/19/06

Ecuador

-  Followup of Medical Caravan in the towns of Milagros and Pinas.  OMS volunteers and missionaries had 40
   come to faith and 120 seek more information after seeing 744 patients in 5 days!
-  Pray for the national Church in that area doing follow up and Pastor Leopoldo who had 3 heart attacks in the
    last 12 months!  This congregation was greatly affected by flooding in March as well!
-  Pray for the Ladines Family who are visiting churches for support and still have not made a decision regarding 
    the mission agency they should be affiliated with.